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Country Blues => Super Electrical Recordings! => Discographies => Topic started by: Blues Vintage on December 09, 2020, 09:51:12 AM
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One of the contributors of "Blues And Gospel Records 1890-1943" (just found out he lives a 20 minute car drive away) told me they are working on a 5th edition.
"We are busy with it every day". But sadly it will take years before the final product is released. It's probably gonna be the definitive edition.
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This is great news, thanks for sharing. I'm curious if they'll release it digitally as well. The ability to do a keyword search on such a vast and wonderful resource would be awesome.
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Many great records have been discovered since the 1990s, a 5th edition will be interesting to see.
YES, a digital version that is searchable, that would be ideal.
Also the ability to see the contents chronologically or in other groupings, that would be so interesting.
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Since I pulled The New Paramount Book of Blues down off the shelf to see what it said about Ben Curry, I've been idly paging through it. I found this piece of info that I'd totally forgotten at the end of Guido van Rijn's Foreword (p. viii):
"While Alex was writing The New Paramount Book of Blues, I was assisting Chris Smith and Howard Rye, the co-revisers, to prepare the fifth edition of Robert M. W. Dixon and John Goodrich's Blues & Gospel Records 1890-1943...". This is dated July 2016.
So work has been "ongoing" for quite a few years already. At some point, I wish the compilers would just issue what they have and hope that a 6th edition will be possible someday. I'd really like to see the fifth edition appear in my lifetime.
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Since I pulled The New Paramount Book of Blues down off the shelf to see what it said about Ben Curry, I've been idly paging through it. I found this piece of info that I'd totally forgotten at the end of Guido van Rijn's Foreword (p. viii):
"While Alex was writing The New Paramount Book of Blues, I was assisting Chris Smith and Howard Rye, the co-revisers, to prepare the fifth edition of Robert M. W. Dixon and John Goodrich's Blues & Gospel Records 1890-1943...". This is dated July 2016.
So work has been "ongoing" for quite a few years already. At some point, I wish the compilers would just issue what they have and hope that a 6th edition will be possible someday. I'd really like to see the fifth edition appear in my lifetime.
It was Guido that told me.